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Quinn's First Law Of Investing Is Never To Buy Anything Whose Price You Can't Follow In The Newspapers. An Investment Without A Public Marketplace Attracts The Fabulists The Way Picnics Attract Ants. Stock Brokers And Financial Planners Can Tell You Anything They Want, Because No One Really Knows What's True. The First Corollary To Quinn's First Law States That, Even When The Price Is In The Newspapers, You Shouldn't Buy Anything Too Complex To Explain To The Average 12-year-old.

Everyone Can Get A Little Sloppy With Cash And It's Smart To Notice. But What's Squeezing You Is The Big Stuff You Ladle Onto Your Credit Cards.

Everyone Said, 'you Can't Lose Money In Real Estate, Because They're Not Making Any More Of It.' Hmmmm. Where Did Everyone Go Wrong?

A Faithfully Kept Program Of Savings And Conservative Investments Can Give You More Money And A Better Life Than That Of Your Neighbors Who Spend Everything They Get. This Is Probably The Oldest Financial Advice In The World, But There Are Some Things You Can't Improve On.

No One Knows What Stocks Will Do Tomorrow, But The Evidence Is Clear As To How They'll Perform Over 10 Or 20 Years. They Will Almost Certainly Go Up.